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Block, Printing

Object number2017.74.9

MediumWood; Metal; Ink

Credit LineGift of National Glass Budget

DescriptionPrinting block consisting of rectangular block of wood with metal plate mounted on front with metal nails. Metal plate has inverted advertisement containing text; copper tint to raised sections of the metal surfaces. Plate contains advertisement for Wedron Silica Division of Del Monte Properties Company. Ink residue on wood block.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 5.063 × 2.563 × 0.938 in. (12.9 × 6.5 × 2.4 cm)
InscriptionsFront of plate has inverted text including "WEDRON SAND / MEETS THE NEED / FOR HIGHEST PURITY / A GRADE FOR EVERY MELTING PURPOSE / SILICA SAND / GROUND SAND (FLOUR) / Seven Wedron Silica plants across the / country... / FOR: FLAT GLASS BOTTLES AND CON- / TAINERS DECORATIVE WARE / INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING TV TUBES / GLASS FIBERS / ... / WEDRON / WEDRON SILICA DIVISION, / DEL MONTE PROPERTIES / COMPANY... / ... Park Ridge, Illinois / ... / WEDRON SILICA DIVISION PLANT LOCATIONS: / Wedron, Illinois Troy Grove, Illinois Sewanee, / Tennessee Lugoff, South Carolina Cleburne, Texas / Emmell, Idaho Byron, California ".
MarksImprinted maker's mark on right side of block "[logo with "LPW"] 69-P".
Historical NotesThe National Glass Budget (NGB), a weekly review of the American glass industry that covered glass manufacture and distribution, was established in Wheeling, West Virginia, by Michel J. Owens as the Ohio Valley Boycotter in 1884. A Pittsburgh politician named Tim O’Leary acquired the publication and renamed it the National Glass Budget in 1890. Originally created as a union workers' publication, the NGB became increasingly orientated with the manufacturing side of the glass industry in the early twentieth century. The NGB boasted the largest circulation of any U.S. glass industry publication among manufacturers, jobbers, and dealers in all kinds of glass products during the twentieth century. The NGB also published special reports on associated enterprises which affected the glass industry. Elizabeth Scott became editor of the National Glass Budget in 1978. The NGB's name was changed to Glass News in 1984 and discontinued in 1988. The Glass Factory Directories are still being published.

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